Control these assets. We will dig into the implications for netflix because they potentially stand to lose possibly the most if fox and disney pull together and emphasize hulu, their direct competitor to netflix. Alix Lisa Abramowicz is joining me, by the way. Fox. Y will be buying the deal looks to be about 52. 4 billion. Disney will assume 13. 7 a foxs debt. This also means that disney will by foxs 39 ownership of sky and bob iger will remain ceo through 2021. A look at whats happening to the stoxx premarket. Disney up 4 10 of 1 . The news was widely expected. Take a look at fox to see what shares are doing. By about a few percentage points. Fromt to get more reaction gita. What is your initial reaction to the deal . This has been in the works for about a month or so. All of these rumors and news reports. Disney instrumental for for its streaming strategy. Gives them a lot of heft in the marketplace. A lot of ammunition in terms of a deep library of content. Increases negotiating lev
One person was found deceased inside the home behind me. Neighbors are telling me it appears to be an elderly woman that lived in that home, but fire officials are not confirming it, at least at this point this morning. This is from our nbc bay area skyranger this morning. You see the smoke coming out of the house. I can tell you first hand here there is a lot of damage to that home. The roof collapsed as a result of that Early Morning fire. The cell phone video was given to us by a neighbor. You can see the flames jumping out behind the trees. Thats the scene they saw this morning when the fire took place. According to contra costa county, theyre saying it happened roughly around 6 30 a. M. And they found heavy fire coming from the middle back room area. Thats where they found a deceased person in the hallway area. It appears that person may have been trying to get out in time when that fire was happening, but they were obviously unsuccessful in that. Like i told you, neighbors said i
Their money back. Is this the worst bill to ever come to the floor of the house. The news at 11 00 starts now. That breaking news is where we begin tonight, your tax bill all but certain to change in the new year, the senate Just Moments Away from a final vote on the gop tax plan. Now youve seen the politics. Lets talk about what it will mean for your bank account. Heres pete muntean. It was more than 1,000 pages long. It went public friday. Youd have to read 200 pages a day to catch up. So will this make your tax bill go down or up . Well, that depends. The biggest benefit are for those making between a quarter Million Dollars and 3 4 million a year. If you have kids, youre 3 quarter Million Dollars a year. If you have kids, youre in luck. There will be fewer Tax Advantages to owning a home. The mortgage Interest Deduction can only be used for new home thats a keystone of homeownership and will likely lower home values. Also the amount of property taxes families can deduct is capped a
Live for. We have chad pergram with the latest on capitol hill. How are you . Neil very good. The house has started final debate on the tweaked version of the senate bill. They had to pull things out to match budgetary rules in the senate before we passed it in the wee hours of the morning. The house had to be in alignment. When they made the changes the house bill and senate bill did not sync up. We will have in 20 minutes, what will be the final, final vote for the tax bill. Then it will be shipped to the white house. The question is when President Trump will sign it. Neil i was asking you the question, when . I always think these things can be like closing on your house that you buy, if you dont wrap up quickly something could very, very, very wrong. I spoke to senators yesterday, chad, if we had our druthers we would sign this fast. Here is the problem there. Is a rule on the hill called capitol hill that is budgetary, paygo, pay as you go. That is important term. If they sign the
Drawing. Terrifying moments on a tarmac in canada when two planes smash into each other. Passengers watching in terror when a fire erupts after the planes hit each other. Amazingly just one firefighter hurt. How could this happen . All that plus Health Officials warn an already dangerous and deadly flu season will get even worse. David letterman announces his new talk show. And skating to south korea. We now know the three female figure skaters who are headed to the olympics to represent team usa. We will reveal them exclusively today, saturday, january 6th, 2018. Announcer from nbc news this is today with sheinelle jones, greg melvin and dylan dreyer live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thanks for joining us. Big night out in california. Did you see the skating . You know what . I have to admit, i was in the air and i didnt get until late last night. You had to deal with the many airport delays going on. Yes, which were going to talk about. It is a busy morning